Sustainable Production & Consumption in Sustainable City Ecosystems

The following discussion agenda is on Sustainable Production & Consumption in the subject of Sustainable City Ecosystems:

1. Production and Consumption Integration
2. Sustainable Consumption and strategies for sustainable consumption
• Voluntary simplicity
• Demand management
• Sustainable purchasing programs
• Slow movement
3. Sustainable Production and strategies for sustainable production
• Bioregional and community technology
• Biomimicry
• Eco-efficiency and Industrial Ecology
• Integrated Technologies for support systems
• Technology assessment

Reference

Newman, P. and Jennings, I. (2008) "Chapter 9: Sustainable Production and Consumption", Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems, Island Press